'Really?
Perhaps he was rather.
But it's all over, a long while.

Old Creakle!' 'You were brought up by an uncle, then ?' said I.
'Of course I was!' said Traddles.

'The one I was always going to write to.

And always didn't, eh! Ha, ha, ha! Yes, I had an uncle then.

He died soon after I left school.' 'Indeed!' 'Yes.